Percentage of Drivers with Jammers?

[category4]

Very possible, so I would report my laptop stolen!!!

[OpenRoad]

....I'm guessing 1 in 20000 cars has a jammer. I'd bet a pizza on that, plus or minus 1 percent...

Taking my earlier numbers further... let's now calculate how many encounters an average metropolitan traffic LEO would see in a month.

Assume he is actively shooting LIDAR for 2 hours of each shift. The rest of the is spent making the traffic stops, running plates, warrants, writing the tickets, re-positioning himself back in the line of fire. Then there's traffic accidents, stalled vehicles, backups for other LEOs, papework at the office, appearing in court, the usual fare. The other chunk of time is when the traffic commute is on, and everyone is forced to drive 40 mph. This does not include bad weather in winter when catching a speeder is much reduced from rain and snow.

Let's assume he shoots 10 potential speeders per minute, or 6 seconds per car. That means he potentially shoots 1200 cars per shift. (Wow, I'd hate to do that every day). In 4 weeks he would of shot at roughly 24,000 cars. So in a month, he would have been exposed to 1 jammer.

[category4]

....I'm guessing 1 in 20000 cars has a jammer. I'd bet a pizza on that, plus or minus 1 percent...

Taking my earlier numbers further... let's now calculate how many encounters an average metropolitan traffic LEO would see in a month.

Assume he is actively shooting LIDAR for 2 hours of each shift. The rest of the is spent making the traffic stops, running plates, warrants, writing the tickets, re-positioning himself back in the line of fire. Then there's traffic accidents, stalled vehicles, backups for other LEOs, papework at the office, appearing in court, the usual fare. The other chunk of time is when the traffic commute is on, and everyone is forced to drive 40 mph. This does not include bad weather in winter when catching a speeder is much reduced from rain and snow.

Let's assume he shoots 10 potential speeders per minute, or 6 seconds per car. That means he potentially shoots 1200 cars per shift. (Wow, I'd hate to do that every day). In 4 weeks he would of shot at roughly 24,000 cars. So in a month, he would have been exposed to 1 jammer.

Seems to be about what our LEO friend in VA has reported, 26 in 18 months, a bit more than 1 a month but within the margin of error I would suspect.

[swarga]

So therefore it can be extrapolated that no cars are equipped with jammers or radar detectors!

I'm glad you realize the fallacy of extrapolating from a too small and/or insufficiently diverse sample.

[OpenRoad]

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Let's assume he shoots 10 potential speeders per minute, or 6 seconds per car. That means he potentially shoots 1200 cars per shift. (Wow, I'd hate to do that every day). In 4 weeks he would of shot at roughly 24,000 cars. So in a month, he would have been exposed to 1 jammer.

I'd say max number of shots per day would be 200 at most. That's for a full 8 hour shift. Depending on traffic and location you only need a few shots, sometimes as few as 1 before you select a "customer."

Then there are days where you don't shoot any. So a normal week would probably be 600 shots, 2,400/mo.

I figured as much. I could not imagine aiming a LIDAR gun that many times in a day... I'd get psychotic after awhile, and maybe a stiff neck.